MGT 400 EXAM 1- 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Trait Approach - Answers -Assumption that internal traits, motives, personality
characteristics, skills, and values of leaders are critical to leader emergence and
predicts who will and will not emerge as a leader.
Behavior Approach - Answers -Focus on the study of actual leadership behavior versus
the internal mechanisms within a person that might cause leadership behavior. Study of
what leaders actually do on the job and to differentiate effective vs. ineffective
leadership outcomes.
Situational/Contingency Approach - Answers -Assumption that situation (context,
environment) influences leadership effectiveness. Focus is on defining relationships
between person, situation, and leadership outcomes.
Power- Influence - Answers -The study of leadership through the lens of the concept of
power and authority. Focus on influence process that flow from leader to subordinates
and vice versa
Integrative/ Pluralistic - Answers -Studying leadership by combining some or all of the
approaches. Ex. Collective, complexity, distributed, shared, and or co-leadership
Types of Leadership Theories - Answers -Leader vs. follower, Descriptive vs.
Prescriptive, Universal vs. Contingency
Leader vs. Follower - Answers -Theories that describe behaviors associated with
leaders as opposed to their followers.
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive - Answers -Theories that focus on mapping the behavioral
terrain of leadership behavior vs. specifying what behaviors leaders must engage in to
be effective.
Universal vs. contingency - Answers -Theories designed to apply leadership across all
contexts vs. theories that specify conditions that intervene in leadership attempts,
influencing their success or failures.
How is global leadership is related to, but different than traditional theories? - Answers -
global leader is leading while facing the difficulties of leading people with different
cultural backgrounds/ preferences at a greater extent than that of just a domestic
leader.
5 Main unresolved issues in the field of leadership - Answers -Problems of definition,
defining leadership effectiveness, problems of studying only parts of leadership that are
popular, following vs. complying
, Global Leadership - Answers -The process and actions through which an individual
influence a range of internal and external constituents from multiple national cultures
and jurisdictions in a context characterized by significant levels of task and relationship
complexity.
How does global leadership differ in kind from traditional leadership? - Answers -Due to
the living and working in a global context can trigger transformational process in
managers due to leading consistently under conditions of global complexity. (ex.
Multiplicity, independence)
How does global leadership differ in degree from traditional leadership? - Answers -
Issues related to connectedness, boundary spanning, complexity, ethical challenges,
dealing with tensions and paradoxes, pattern recognition, building learning
environments, building terms and conditions, leading large scale change efforts
Intercultural communication competence - Answers -The ability to effectively and
appropriately execute communication behaviors that negotiate each other's cultural
identity or identities in a culturally diverse environment.
Global management - Answers -Someone assigned to a position with cross-border
responsibility, who needs to understand business from a world-wide perspective,
balance potentially contradictory environmental demands, and be able to work with
multiple cultures simultaneously.
The Globe study - Answers -The most extensive comparative leadership study to date
Universally accepted Leadership Traits - Answers -o Decisive, Informed, Honest,
Dynamic, Administratively skilled, Coordinator, Just, Team builder, Effective bargainer,
Dependable, Win-win problem solver, Plans ahead, Intelligent, Excellence oriented
key findings of globe leadership study - Answers -o National culture does not predict
leadership behavior, but it does influence leadership expectations. "roman leaders lead
in a manner expected in Rome"
o Leaders are more likely to be perceived as effective if their behavior fits their countries
leadership expectations. "roman leaders best do as the romans do"
· What does it mean to say Global leadership has multidisciplinary roots? - Answers -o
This means that global leadership is defined from a variety of different angles
(Intercultural communication competence, expatriation, global management, ect.) that
determine what makes a successful global leader.
Competency - Answers -a set of underlying characteristics possessed by an individual
or team that have been demonstrated to predict superior performance.
Standards that must be met to be defined as a competency: - Answers -§ Must exist
prior to performance
Trait Approach - Answers -Assumption that internal traits, motives, personality
characteristics, skills, and values of leaders are critical to leader emergence and
predicts who will and will not emerge as a leader.
Behavior Approach - Answers -Focus on the study of actual leadership behavior versus
the internal mechanisms within a person that might cause leadership behavior. Study of
what leaders actually do on the job and to differentiate effective vs. ineffective
leadership outcomes.
Situational/Contingency Approach - Answers -Assumption that situation (context,
environment) influences leadership effectiveness. Focus is on defining relationships
between person, situation, and leadership outcomes.
Power- Influence - Answers -The study of leadership through the lens of the concept of
power and authority. Focus on influence process that flow from leader to subordinates
and vice versa
Integrative/ Pluralistic - Answers -Studying leadership by combining some or all of the
approaches. Ex. Collective, complexity, distributed, shared, and or co-leadership
Types of Leadership Theories - Answers -Leader vs. follower, Descriptive vs.
Prescriptive, Universal vs. Contingency
Leader vs. Follower - Answers -Theories that describe behaviors associated with
leaders as opposed to their followers.
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive - Answers -Theories that focus on mapping the behavioral
terrain of leadership behavior vs. specifying what behaviors leaders must engage in to
be effective.
Universal vs. contingency - Answers -Theories designed to apply leadership across all
contexts vs. theories that specify conditions that intervene in leadership attempts,
influencing their success or failures.
How is global leadership is related to, but different than traditional theories? - Answers -
global leader is leading while facing the difficulties of leading people with different
cultural backgrounds/ preferences at a greater extent than that of just a domestic
leader.
5 Main unresolved issues in the field of leadership - Answers -Problems of definition,
defining leadership effectiveness, problems of studying only parts of leadership that are
popular, following vs. complying
, Global Leadership - Answers -The process and actions through which an individual
influence a range of internal and external constituents from multiple national cultures
and jurisdictions in a context characterized by significant levels of task and relationship
complexity.
How does global leadership differ in kind from traditional leadership? - Answers -Due to
the living and working in a global context can trigger transformational process in
managers due to leading consistently under conditions of global complexity. (ex.
Multiplicity, independence)
How does global leadership differ in degree from traditional leadership? - Answers -
Issues related to connectedness, boundary spanning, complexity, ethical challenges,
dealing with tensions and paradoxes, pattern recognition, building learning
environments, building terms and conditions, leading large scale change efforts
Intercultural communication competence - Answers -The ability to effectively and
appropriately execute communication behaviors that negotiate each other's cultural
identity or identities in a culturally diverse environment.
Global management - Answers -Someone assigned to a position with cross-border
responsibility, who needs to understand business from a world-wide perspective,
balance potentially contradictory environmental demands, and be able to work with
multiple cultures simultaneously.
The Globe study - Answers -The most extensive comparative leadership study to date
Universally accepted Leadership Traits - Answers -o Decisive, Informed, Honest,
Dynamic, Administratively skilled, Coordinator, Just, Team builder, Effective bargainer,
Dependable, Win-win problem solver, Plans ahead, Intelligent, Excellence oriented
key findings of globe leadership study - Answers -o National culture does not predict
leadership behavior, but it does influence leadership expectations. "roman leaders lead
in a manner expected in Rome"
o Leaders are more likely to be perceived as effective if their behavior fits their countries
leadership expectations. "roman leaders best do as the romans do"
· What does it mean to say Global leadership has multidisciplinary roots? - Answers -o
This means that global leadership is defined from a variety of different angles
(Intercultural communication competence, expatriation, global management, ect.) that
determine what makes a successful global leader.
Competency - Answers -a set of underlying characteristics possessed by an individual
or team that have been demonstrated to predict superior performance.
Standards that must be met to be defined as a competency: - Answers -§ Must exist
prior to performance
